Ummagumma

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Ummagumma
A room with the doors open with the outside showing trees and a grass field with one person sitting in a chair and the rest of the band outside. The text reading "PINK FLOYD" is placed on the floor. On the floor, a vase and a vinyl album of Gigi leaning against the floor. Hanging on the wall is a looping image of the same scene but with the persons in different positions.
Studio album / live album by
Pink Floyd
Released7 November 1969 (1969-11-07)
Recorded
  • September 1968 – July 1969 (studio)
  • 27 April and 2 May 1969 (live)
Venue
StudioEMI, London
Genre
Length86:32
39:24 (live album)
46:51 (studio album)
LabelHarvest
Producer
Pink Floyd chronology
More
(1969) 		Ummagumma
(1969) 		Atom Heart Mother
(1970)

Ummagumma is the fourth album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It is a double album and was released on 7 November 1969 by Harvest Records.[4] The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester that contained part of their normal set list of the time, while the second contains solo compositions by each member of the band recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios).[5][6] The artwork was designed by regular Pink Floyd collaborators Hipgnosis and features a number of pictures of the band combined to give a Droste effect. It was the last album cover to feature the band.

Although Ummagumma was well received at the time of release, and was a top-five hit in the UK album charts, it has since been looked upon unfavourably by critics and by the band, who have expressed lukewarm opinions about it in interviews. The album has been reissued on CD several times, along with the rest of their catalogue.

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  2. ^ Doyle Greene (17 February 2016). Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era. McFarland. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-4766-6214-5. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  3. ^ Manning 2006, p. 160.
  4. ^ Povey 2007, p. 115.
  5. ^ Povey 2007, p. 74.
  6. ^ Alistair Lawrence (2012). Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World. A&C Black. p. 14. ISBN 9781408832417. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2017.